There's a word for what happens when the football is snapped and 22 players erupt in scarcely constrained violence. It's chaos.

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There's a word for what happens when the football is snapped and 22 players erupt in scarcely constrained violence.

It's chaos.

"It all happens so fast that most fans follow the game simply by following the ball -- from center to quarterback, then on to receiver or running back, and ultimately to the bottom of the pile," wrote Pat Kirwan, a former football coach, web columnist, radio commentator and author. "They see a handful of players doing their jobs, while everything else appears to be pure bedlam." ...